This evening Multiplay have announced the structure of the online qualifiers for their upcoming Insomnia 32 LAN event, held in Newbury, England, from November 9th-12th. With 9 teams signed up for the online qualifiers, of which the top 2 teams will advance to the LAN Finals, meeting the top 2 teams from the LAN qualifiers. Also receiving 6 free tickets to the event, worth £480, the competition sees some promising European teams competing, as well as UK teams hoping to gain some valuable experience before the event.

The Cup will run with the rules which are being used by both ESL and Clanbase, which can only be as a good thing for the ETQW Community, as the 5 biggest current competitions are now operating with the same restrictions and maplist.

Signups
Team Dignitas
Greek Operation Forces
wArning!
Team Speed-Link
Betsson Voodoo Gaming
Point-Blank
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Perfect Target (Edit - Dropped Out)
The 13th Legion

Whilst Team Dignitas and Greek Operation Forces appear to be the favourites, wArning!, Team Speed-Link and Betsson Voodoo Gaming will all be looking to subsidise their possible attendance, whilst Point-Blank will be flying the UK flag and hoping to keep the Contamination Cup on home soil.

Some of the most important matches include
Team Dignitas vs Team Speed-Link - Ark/Area 22
Greek Operation Forces vs Team Speed-Link - Island / Volcano
wArning! vs Point-Blank - Island / Volcano
Team Dignitas vs Greek Operation Forces - Ark / Salvage
wArning! vs Betsson Voodoo Gaming - Ark / Salvage
Greek Operation Forces vs Betsson Voodoo Gaming - Refinery / Sewer
wArning! vs Team Speed-Link - Refinery / Sewer
Team Dignitas vs Point-Blank - Salvage / Volcano
Greek Operation Forces vs Point-Blank - Island / Refinery
Team Speed-Link vs Betsson Voodoo Gaming - Island / Refinery
Team Dignitas vs wArning! - Area 22 / Ark
Greek Operation Forces vs wArning! - Refinery / Salvage
Betsson Voodoo Gaming vs Point-Blank - Refinery / Salvage
Team Speed-Link vs Point-Blank - Sewer / Volcano
Team Dignitas vs Betsson Voodoo Gaming - Sewer / Volcano

You can see the full information here

Last wednesday (read more..) Team Dignitas announced their very own ET:QW Cup in cooperation with QPAD. In the first qualifier, held last saturday, we could see Team Druidz and wArning! go through to the finals. Next qualifier is this wednesday (17/10), and there''s still time to sign up. However, the admins have now decided that some changes had to be made in their schedule and this is what they had to say..

Warleagues ET Season IX is in signup stage

The signups for Warleagues season IX are open now. We keep our signups open until Sunday October 21, 12.00 CET.

Please only sign in if you have 6 plrs in your roster and make sure all the guids are filled in correctly!

Sign up and join

According to the comments by the players, one can expect pretty one-sided matches, but will it be so? Either way, I believe they're going to be enjoyable matches so click yourself to gamestv.org and connect to the ETTV!

Cortana started by defending bremen, overload got the flag rather quick but after that problems arised. after a struggle the time was set to 10:30. Cortana's waves of attacks took down overload's defences one by one and the truck approached the final gate, Cortana still had few spare minutes. It wasn't one-sided, but Cortana took it home. Radar on the other hand was a struggle against the odds. Cortana had troubles getting the parts but they managed to set a time of around 10 minutes. Overload attacked with a steady grip of the game. 4 minutes left on the clock and they had already started attacking for west parts. few situations were close calls and it was impossible to call the winner of the map before the time was nearly out, when there were around 30 seconds left, it was time to call it a good game. the match ended up being a lot more exciting than expected. 4-0 for Cortana.
Mmf started out on the allied side on radar, and the team managed to make it to the final phase with time to spare. The Belgian side succeeded in securing the East radar parts, but despite several takings of the West parts, the team failed to set a time. Switching sides, the attack proved no easy task for MoD either, although the team managed to push the Belgians back to the final stage rather quickly. At that stage, mmf made an effort to fend off the attacks of the European blend, but to no avail. MoD went on to set a time of 7:27, thus winning the first map. On bremen, MoD quickened the pace, capturing the flag at 13:36 and hastily proceeding to tear down the mmf defence. The team stole the keycard around 12:10, secured it, and proceeded towards the truck, keeping the pressure on the Belgians. Following a few unfruitful attempts at getting through to the truck, MoD constructed the cp while mmf desperately reorganized their truck defence. Shortly after, MoD managed to find an opening in mmf's defences, and the team repaired the truck with 10:30 left on the clock, proceeding to set a time of 6:16. A discussion mounted at the beginning of second round as mmf began their attack. The Belgians managed to get the dynamite down at the main gate with about 5:10 left on the clock. Between some of the players, things got personal at that point. At 1:56 mmf attempted a second grab of the keycard and managed to secure it. With about 1:30 remaining on the clock, mmf began escorting the truck, but MoD were still holding on to the CP at that point, greatly obstructing their attacks. A triple rifle nade from Krein sealed the deal for MoD, and the Belgians proved unable to beat the set time.

Two days after we announced the first national and international qualifiers, today we bring you another update on them. Three new national qualifiers have started and unfortunaly two are being cancelled. Furthermore we have an update on our international qualifier.

Yesterday Germany and Poland opened the signups for their national qualifiers. Both countries are one of the biggest countries so far and therefore it was not really a big suprise that we have already exceeded the minimum team limit of eight for each country. The next one is our Danish Qualifier. Since Denmark is one of the newest countries at ESL, we have decided to host the qualifier in our international section.

Germany: Signup
Poland: Signup
Denmark: Signup

more qualifiers:
Europe: Signup
Finland: Signup
Italy: Signup
Netherlands: Signup
Norway: Signup
Russia: Signup
Sweden: Signup
United Kingdom: Signup[/hide]

As ETQW is quite a new game, we knew that it would be hard to find enough teams for qualifiers in certain nations. Today we have to announce the first changes in our list of national qualifiers. In consultation with our national partners of Bulgaria and Portugal we unfortunately will be canceling both qualifiers. If you and your team comes from one of these countries, you can now join our international qualifiers for a chance to qualify. Due to these changes, Europe will now get 5 slots for the EMS. More changes may occur, but we will inform you about everything in time.

Another change affects our 1st EU Qualifier. Due to the unexpected small number of signups, we have changed the start of the first round to Wednesday and extended the signups to Tuesday.

At the end we like to present you a nice introduction into the ESL Major Series. Gameriot published a nice article about the EMS and the concept behind it.


ESL News
ESL Major Series Qualifier Guide
Gameriot introduction

Preview. The first match week of EuroCup XVI continues tonight with two group showdowns. Familiar names don a silly tag, players compete just for the heck of it, and stars hope to live up to the hype as the battle for a spot in the play-offs continues.

Only two days after we announced the qualification details of the ESL Major Series, we are happy to present you today eight qualifiers. Italy was the fastest country and will host the first national qualifier. The signups are already open for two days and will be closed at Saturday night. Starting with the first round at Sunday evening, the cup will end at Monday, 10/22/07. Besides this we have opened today the signups for all national qualifiers which will be not hosted by our national partners. The closing day of the signups is not yet decided, but will be announced in a seperate news.

Last but not least, we have the 1st EU qualifier where two of the 32 teams can get a slot for the ESL Major Series. The signups opened some minutes ago and will close at Sunday evening. The 1st EU qualifier starts on Monday and will end one week later. Detailed information about the fixed matches and rounds will be published this weekend. Now it is up to you: Join your own qualifier and be sure to know which one is the right one:

My team has X members from Y country, can we join the international qualifier?
If your team is more than 60% made up from one of the countries listed below (ingame and on your team profile) then you can not join the International Qualifier, you are considered a national team.

Teams with national qualifiers: Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Alpen, Bulgaria, Greece, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

If your team is a national team from one of those countries see the other news posts for information on how to qualify or read our EMS Qualifier Guide.


All open qualifiers:
Europe: Signup
Finland: Signup
Italy: Signup
Netherlands: Signup
Norway: Signup
Russia: Signup
Sweden: Signup
United Kingdom: Signup

ESL Major Series Qualifier Guide

Yesterday evening we saw 3 EC games being played. 2 of group C and 1 of group D.

Today the latest installment of the Call of Duty series, Modern Warfare had its demo released on PC today! The game which has already had a multiplayer beta on XBOX 360 is one of the winters hotly anticipated titles and is available to download now through Yahoo games. Weighing on at 1.4 gb you can download it here

Required (minimum) Specs
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM) 64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported
RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)
Hard Drive: 8GB of free space
Video card: NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9800 Pro or better

Download:

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Today Team Dignitas is proud to announce yet another tournament in co-operation with QPAD: the Team Dignitas Enemy Territory 2on2 Cup! Thirty-two teams will do battle on mp_sillyctf this Friday, October 12th. Round 1 is set to kick off at 19:00 CET and the Grand Final is scheduled to be played at 22:00 CET that night.

Update: ~desu have been crowned Grand Champions after a valiant battle against mitä ajan! We wish teKoa and Azatej the best of luck with their prizes!

2x Enemy Territory: Quake Wars game
2x QPAD CT ET:QW Collector's Edition